Director of Endoscopy, Indiana University
Hospital
Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology
Indiana University Health
Indiana, USA
Eduardo Rodrigues-Pinto, MD
Department of Gastroenterology
Centro Hospitalar São João
Porto, Portugal
Alberto Rubio-Tapia, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Mayo Clinic
Minnesota, USA
Matthew D. Rutter, MD, FRCP
Professor
University Hospital of North Tees
Queen’s Medical Campus, Durham
University
Cleveland, UK
Prateek Sharma, MD
Professor
University of Kansas School of Medicine
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical
Center
Missouri, USA
Hassan Siddiki, MD, MS
Clinical Fellow
Department of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Mayo Clinic
Arizona, USA
Ali Ahmed Siddiqui, MD
Professor
Division of Gastroenterology
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Pennsylvania, USA
Peter D. Siersema, MD, PhD, FASGE
Professor
Department of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Radboud University Medical Center
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Rajvinder Singh, FRCP FRACP
Professor of Medicine and Director of
Gastroenterology
Department of Gastroenterology
Division of Medicine
University of Adelaide & the Lyell McEwin
Hospital
Adelaide, Australia
Louis M. Wong Kee Song, MD
Professor
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Mayo Clinic
Minnesota, USA
Cristiano Spada, MD, PhD
Digestive Endoscopy Unit
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A.
Gemelli
Rome, Italy
Stavros N. Stavropoulos, MD, FASGE
Chief, GI Endoscopy
Director, Program in Advanced GI Endoscopy
Winthrop University Hospital
Mineola, New York, USA
Adjunct Professor
Columbia University
New York, New York, USA
Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine
Temple University
Pennsylvania, USA
Andrew C. Storm, MD
Therapeutic Endoscopy Fellow
Division of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Mayo Clinic
Minnesota, USA
James H. Tabibian, MD, PhD
Instructor
Division of Gastroenterology
Advanced Endoscopy Training Program
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, USA
David James Tate, MA (Cantab), MRCP
Department of Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Westmead Hospital
Sydney, Australia
Christopher C. Thompson, MD, MSc, FACG,
FASGE
Director of Therapeutic Endoscopy
Associate Professor
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts, USA
Geoffroy Vanbiervliet, MD, MSc
Hospital Practitioner
Endoscopie Digestive
Hôpital L’Archet, CHU Nice
Nice, France
Michael Vieth, MD
Klinikum Bayreuth
Institute of Pathology
Bayreuth, Germany
Till Wehrmann, MD, PhD
Head
Department of Gastroenterology
DKD Helios Klinik Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden, Germany
John Chi To Wong, MD, FRCPC, DABIM
Clinical Professional Consultant
Institute of Digestive Disease
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prince of Wales Hospital
New Territories, Hong Kong
Hironori Yamamoto, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology
Jichi Medical University
Tochigi, Japan
Juliana Yang, MD
Gastroenterology Fellow
Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases
University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center
Texas, USA
Contents
1 Education and Training in Endoscopy
Jürgen Hochberger, Jürgen Maiss, and Jonathan Cohen
2 The Value of Clinical Research
Michael B. Wallace and Peter D. Siersema